David Murphy in focus as new details emerge

-- It was early January when Brad Underwood knew his friend was in a good place. League coverage adds His Illini basketball team was visiting the Palestra for a neutral site game against Penn State when Fran McCaffery stopped by to chat. Team-side reporting suggests The two coaches had spent the previous eight years helping one another navigate and endure the pressures of a rapidly evolving Big Ten. Post-game reporting indicates Leading a major college basketball program was rapidly evolving into a careful-what-you-wish-for kind of thing. League coverage adds They were men from an era when coaches built legacies via relationships and culture, an era when there was something meaningful in the association between the name on the front of the jersey and the university. Team-side reporting suggests When Iowa fired McCaffery, the winningest coach in school history, it was another sign of the times., The previous spring.